Discrimination in OTB Chess

Has anyone ever come across or experienced discrimination in any form with OTB chess?

Is there even any discrimination going on today with the local league your club plays in perhaps, or your countries National Chess Federation/Association?

Yes, the chess community generally discriminates against players who try to cheat.

Oh, wait, I guess you meant some other form of discrimination...

I meant discrimination in general. It could be as an individual or your club/team.

It has never happened to me ...also I have never seen anyone discriminating anybody ...chess is polite and friendly sport most of the time ...! :)

Nope...The only place you will find it is online.  And the answer to that is obvious.

Nope... nobody cares in chess. Your race, gender, young, old or disabled means very little. The two players are locked in a battle of the mind and little else matters. I recall many 6hr games where i never looked up at my opponent. Your moves are the measure.

I usually discriminate people that create nonsense threads

I've played in tournaments with players who are old, young, male, female, white, black, asian, etc. I've never seen any type of discrimination. For the most part, people don't even talk to each other. They just show up and play.

But I have had strangers talk to me between rounds or even come up to me in a cafe to talk chess, recognizing me from the tournament. Everyone has always been incredibly nice and respectful OTB. As others have said, online is a completely different story. Chess.com isn't exclusive, though. It's just everyone on the internet. But up until I blocked most communications on here, I don't know that I experienced descrimination. It was mostly guys hitting on me, sometimes relentlessly. No one ever assumed I was bad because I was female or made any gender-based insults/jokes.

I noticed you live in Oregon.  Do you by chance know who Nick Raptis is?

Get with the times OP, you're way behind.

A few months ago you needed to include "women" or "female" in the title. For example: "female discrimination in OTB chess"

But present day troll theory advocates using "transgender"

The preferred title is therefore: "transgender discrimination in OTB chess."

I sense a subtle discrimination against players of lesser skills.

No idea, sorry.

Ha, that reminds me of the most recent tournament I played in. My first game was against someone who was rated hundreds above me. He danced around with his queen, snatching up my pieces. And I was too blind to see the next one coming because the time controls were short. Seven or eight moves in he takes yet another piece and I just blurted out "What the hell is happening?!" And he laughed and then after the game ran it back and explained bout the importance of my kingside pawns when he's threatening with his Queen. It was mind-blowing. Literally less than 2 minutes into the game he was up 9 points.

Ha... I really don't do well with short time controls.

Thanks, i was just curious.  He is a FM that has won the Oregon state title a few times.

And I'm sure you're ever so humble, too.

Pretty sure black people aren't allowed in chess clubs since I've never seen one. 

Happy now?

It's really tough to know in any given case, but I'd say it happens all the time, without the person discriminated against--or even the discriminator--realizing it happened.  If I lose to a ten-year-old kid who's rated the same as me, I'm likely to get more upset than if I lost to a player my age who's rated the same.  I'll probably be a lot more likely to refuse an offer to analyze the game. 

That's making a different decision based just on the age of the other player, right?  It's not a stretch to say that I might get similarly more upset and refuse an analysis session with a female, rather than male, opponent, or maybe even an opponent of a different race. 

The key is, when you do discriminate, you will probably not even realize it, because you don't have a counterfactual--you haven't just lost the same game against a different opponent who's your age, your gender, your race, so you can't compare how you might have decided differently in that case.  It's often not a conscious and detectable thing, but it happens all the time because our minds are trained to group people into categories and react based on those groupings.

In every chess clubs or tournaments I have been to, I never saw any descrimination of any kind.  As said above, players were kind to each other.  But I felt some small thing with ratings differences.  Just once in a while.  Most of the time, better rated players always talked to me after games and tried to teach me some more of chess.  I never felt sad or bullied at OTB chess places.

Vandarringa: It is fair enough to be annoyed at losing to a kid, but seems a bit harsh to refuse analysis! I make a special case for kids because they should be encouraged. Unless they are a mouthy smart-asd kid, in which case f them.